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by usgroup 1521 days ago
It’s an observational study and the author volunteers a bunch of caveats at the end of the article including with regards to construct validity which I think is the crux of your challenge.

If you think of chess as two people with different capacity CPUs calculating against each other (many people do) then time should only ever make the outcome more certain. The author basically says that if that was true, people that beat you at fast chess should be even more likely to beat you slower chess, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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Thank you for this reframing. The CPU speed analogy finally made me understand what the author meant with "fast" and "slow" thinking.